Table 6. Biochemical, molecular identification, and incidence of enterotoxin genes of S. aureus isolated from examined samples using multiplex PCR.
Types of samples | Samples harbor coagulase positive S. aureus | Strains identified by 23S rRNA | Samples harbor enterotoxigenic strains | Type of SEs | |||||
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sea | seb | sec | sed | see | |||||
No. | % | No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | |
Ras cheese | 13 | 26 | 2 | 2 | Nil | 2 | Nil | 1 | Nil |
Domiati cheese | 18 | 36 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | ||
Mish | 9 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | Nil | Nil |